For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 07, 2015

Well, it’s progress, right?

Well, for those of us who have yet to be published, even appearing in fish wrapping is better than nothing…

No matter! Somebody else is cutting it out and saving it forever, because it mirrors something they feel.

I don’t think they printed ads for that stuff back then. Not like today, when every other commercial on TV is either for ‘special’ underwear or little blue pills…

As somebody who had to self-publish my book, I say take what you can get!

Translation: Upper Crust=British Lunch Meat=SpamNow everybody sing…Spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam

Lynn’s Notes:

When the Dundas Valley Journal ran my cartoons, I was thrilled. It didn’t take long, however, for me to wish for a larger space and a bit more money. They paid me $10.00 a gag, and when I asked for $15, they stopped buying.

ITs a start and that is what counts. You are now in the game.The next issue is uping the game, a never ending process.

We’re a much prudish place than those “foreign” countries where nude beaches are not some secret hideaway advertised in the back pages of secret little newspapers clandestinely placed in obscure locations.-——————————————It’s all the leftovers of the uber-repressed English Puritans who annoyed everyone over there, only to come over here and be renamed Pilgrims.I’m from one of those old Puritan colonies (founded in 1639), where a local legend is that one man had to flee the colony and swim across the river to safety, because he dared to (gasp!) kiss his wife on a Sunday!It took us more than 300 years before we got rid of laws that banned stores being open on Sundays.Nature has set things right, though. The Puritans are long gone but our turkeys are still here.

It could have been worse, Elly. It could have been stuck under an ad for feminine products.

Believe me, there is NOTHING like looking up on a bookshelf and seeing a book sitting there with your name on the spine!

Baloney?

Hey, somebody’s got to pay to have that mag printed.

Think of that lunch meat ad over the poem as “food for thought”.

The stories, poems,photos, and cartoons are there to fill the spaces where the ads are not.

Stores open 24/7 is better? having a day of for most is much better, it slows us down.

GMTA! ….Sorry, I totally missed your earlier post, Gweedo.

At lease it wasn’t under an ad for suppositories!

By his name I would have concluded that Jim lives in CT.

Not sure what Lynn’s Notes was supposed to be. It seems she admitted she wanted too much too soon and they said no more because they felt she got greedy.

Hey, don’t feel badly, I had to look it up: Great Minds Think Alike.

Just like real estate – location, location, location.

My father once, as we were either about to watch or had just watched one of the good sci-fi shows he encouraged me to share, wondered aloud why he was supposed to be worried about me seeing people in good relationships do things that are completely natural (and this would have been broadcast TV in the early 90s) and not about violence. Yes, there was violence in Star Trek (TNG and DS9 at the time), Babylon 5, Stargate, etc, but Picard sought every possible chance for peace, B5 and Stargate were trying to take down manipulating evil forces, and a lot of the people who got beheaded on The Highlander were very bad people who couldn’t exactly be arrested. I still can’t watch soaps because they are filled with, as Dad put it, people trying to do bad things to each other. Or “reality TV”

Babylon 5, Crusade and Firefly..Sadly, only the first got it’s full 5 seasons.Still, there Were some Brilliant Moments in all of them..A Personal Favorite was the Crusade episode that was a tribute/sendoff of the X-Files.Mulder & Scully Aliens.Humans messing with The Alien Government…They even featured a Cigarette Smoking Alien (i.e. Cancer Man)..

Visitors from Down the Street If you missed the episode..

Some people are hard to please.